03-12-2011, 02:03 AM -
sophos7 Wrote:Thanks for following up. I am sure this will be helpful to new users since more people are move to Windows 7. I will be towards the end of next year for the whole company and I will certainly need this reg edit then.
I am trying windows 7 these days (and i am not very happy actually, for a number of reasons) and unfortunately the trick does not work anymore.
To delete this key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{a2a9545d-a0c2-42b4-9708-a0b2badd77c8}
disables the start menu, but also causes the taskbar to stop showing buttons for the open apps.
So we're back at square one, start menu is NOT killed.
(This is another of the aggravations of windows 7, others being the horrible, unpractical system tray, which seems to be meant to plainly waste space, and the loss of the traditional context menu of the taskbar buttons, as if the "restore" or maximize commands were not most useful when the titlebar ends under the taskbar. You gotta wonder why to make this changes, only to imitate macs. If I wanted a mac I'd use a mac... #-o )